I’ve posted my version of this excellent script, link at my name.

Note that the link is behind a self-signed HTTPS certificate, so your browser may bring that to your attention with anything from a simple notice to setting its hair on fire (I’m looking at you, Firefox).

Also, Drupal wouldn’t let me save the attachment with a *.sh name, so I had to call it *.txt: I suggest downloading & renaming to *.sh, although simply setting it to executable (chmod +x [script-name]) should do it, regardless of file name extension.

If you try it, leave me a message via the Contact form on my site: I’d love to hear from you.

However, you are welcome to add a link to your script and I will point my blog’s visitors to the page.

I’ve taken the liberty to modify it, rather dramatically:

* a Zenity pop-up to tell user to click INSIDE desired window (in case they miss the cross-hair cursor), with a Continue? Y/N option

* detects error if user clicked title bar (frame not available) and gives pop-up error message

* extracts screenshot file name from windows title and makes screenshot-$Title.png the default output file name

* uses zenity –file-selector –save –confirm-overwrite to allow user to store image where ever they please

I may post the script on one of my websites, if I can figure out an appropriate one, but wonder if you’d like the updated script to post here?

Thanks again for your effort!

rb

Not everytime, but it takes the screenshot of the window with frame for me.

Yeah, at this stage, there is little hope this bug will ever be fixed.

Compiz Fusion developers are going thru a rewrite to C++ in version 0.9. Meanwhile, Gnome people is busy with Gnome Shell for Gnome 3. Both sides have not had a good history of co-operating.

This bug still exists in Jaunty (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in Karmic too). Thanks for your fix, it will be nice to take screenshots with my fancy compiz decorations

Rod.

I guess it should be possible to automatically append a number to the filename, to prevent it from overwriting a previous file. However, it’s troublesome enough that I would not want to implement this. Really, screenshots are not something I do frequently enough to warrant the effort.

To save the screenshot file to the desktop, simply change the three occurrences of “screenshot.png” to “~/Desktop/screenshot.png”.

But if I take a new screenshot, it overwrites the previous one… Is there a way to automatically name the files “sreenshot1.png”, “screenshot2.png”… ?
Also I wanted to know if it was possible to have the screenshots saved on the desktop instead of the home directory ?